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Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by myth_drannon »

shilgapira wrote: post #88
breppp wrote: post #62

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lol Let me tell you something even more worrying, Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft already have larger engineering centers in Israel than most of Europe. And over 90% of their workers served in the IDF! And many more in Israeli Intelligence! and they're also mostly Jewish! Spooky stuff, our ads will never be safe now

Oy vey! You've got to love how spewing such casual bigotry against random people doesn't ring any alarm bells for people like this Paul person. I'm sure he considers himself a "progressive" lol.

This guy has quite a history, no surprise. Check his twitter.

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by Flatterer3544 »

nsjdjdekkddk wrote: post #86
ToucanLoucan wrote: post #78

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Maybe we should examine as an industry why so many mediocre men get elevated to positions of incredible power and run great businesses into the ground.

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Who said you need to be great in an area to tell the difference between competent and incompetent?

While it helps, it doesn't take a genius to tell the difference. Picking the great from the great apart, that'd be another story all together.

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by atmosx »

ToucanLoucan wrote: post #78
tipiirai wrote: post #68

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Thiel is an idiot

Maybe we should examine as an industry why so many mediocre men get elevated to positions of incredible power and run great businesses into the ground.

Luck (primarily) and connections. We feel psychologically safe believing there is some determinism _in the world_. But there's none. Studies show that you can have 140 IQ and still end up homeless if circumstances are poor.

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by edanm »

1-more wrote: post #80
darth_aardvark wrote: post #40

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Unlikely, since modern Hebrew doesn't have a letter for "w".

It has vav which gets transliterated as v, u, o, or w. How does the average modern Hebrew speaker pronounce these company names in a sentence? Vix, Vayz, Viz? Is the "w" transliteration an example of Latin to Hebrew transliteration but not vice-versa?

It's pronounced the same as in English. Wiz, Waze, Wix. It's written with "double vav" in Hebrew, not just a single vav which would make it read as Viz.

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by edanm »

darth_aardvark wrote: post #76
bonesss wrote: post #53

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Is it possible the foreignness makes ‘W’ appealing as it signals cool modern tech alignment or something? Like how ‘X’ attracts marketing and typographic knuckle-draggers in English, or how all our AI companies have butthole logos for reasons that only make sense if you understand the underlying companies and culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_of_Israel#W There's 5 of them, two of which happen to have been acquired by Google. Fair to say it's likely a coincidence. Interestingly, they all use "vav vav" as the start of their Hebrew names. "Vav" is the hebrew letter for V, so it's kind of like using VV to represent W. Maybe you're right, and it's a stylistic thing! My knowledge of Hebrew ends in Hebrew school, a…

Despite commenting on this literally five seconds ago in the sibling comment, I hadn't made the connection that if "vav" is V, then using "vav vav" is like "VV" which is like "W". I wonder if this is a real thing.

In any case, I'm pretty sure it's just a coincidence, I don't think it's a stylistic thing, unless I'm missing something.

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by gbacon »

atmosx wrote: post #94
ToucanLoucan wrote: post #78

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Maybe we should examine as an industry why so many mediocre men get elevated to positions of incredible power and run great businesses into the ground.

Luck (primarily) and connections. We feel psychologically safe believing there is some determinism _in the world_. But there's none. Studies show that you can have 140 IQ and still end up homeless if circumstances are poor.

> Luck (primarily)

This is an extraordinary claim. What is your extraordinary evidence?

Why didn’t it rain today? Good luck! Why was Michael Jordan so skillful at basketball? Just good luck. Why is Linux better than Windows? Good luck! Why did VMS fall off? Bad luck. Why does 2 + 2 = 4? I guess just good luck.

These are all laughably incurious, superstitious answers. Other factors must be at play. Yes, identifying them may require hard thinking and concentration.

Otherwise, what is democracy other than selecting the luckiest? We already had strange women lying in ponds distributing swords for that — and much cheaper and quicker to boot.

> Studies show that you can have 140 IQ and still end up homeless if circumstances are poor.

We’ve likely all known people who were book smart but didn’t have good walking-around sense. Everyone knows others who make poor or destructive choices. The interpersonal skills, soft skills, and emotional intelligence being dismissed in this thread as mere “luck and connections” may be severely lacking. The person may have poor mental health or addiction.

Are you using determinism in the automata theory sense or some other?

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by thwarted »

gbacon wrote: post #97
atmosx wrote: post #94

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Luck (primarily) and connections. We feel psychologically safe believing there is some determinism _in the world_. But there's none. Studies show that you can have 140 IQ and still end up homeless if circumstances are poor.

> Luck (primarily) This is an extraordinary claim. What is your extraordinary evidence? Why didn’t it rain today? Good luck! Why was Michael Jordan so skillful at basketball? Just good luck. Why is Linux better than Windows? Good luck! Why did VMS fall off? Bad luck. Why does 2 + 2 = 4? I guess just good luck. These are all laughably incurious, superstitious answers. Other factors must be at play. Yes, identifying th…

Luck here isn't referring to some invisible dice roll whose randomness can not be explained or is just a correlation (like no rain on your wedding day would be), it's refers to variables that the person can not influence. Being born into a rich family is lucky for that baby, and the baby can't have done anything about it.

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by [deleted] »

gbacon wrote: post #97
atmosx wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Luck (primarily) and connections. We feel psychologically safe believing there is some determinism _in the world_. But there's none. Studies show that you can have 140 IQ and still end up homeless if circumstances are poor.

> Luck (primarily) This is an extraordinary claim. What is your extraordinary evidence? Why didn’t it rain today? Good luck! Why was Michael Jordan so skillful at basketball? Just good luck. Why is Linux better than Windows? Good luck! Why did VMS fall off? Bad luck. Why does 2 + 2 = 4? I guess just good luck. These are all laughably incurious, superstitious answers. Other factors must be at play. Yes, identifying th…

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